OpenShot

The OpenShot video editor is quite amazing. The best thing is, it’s cross-platform, available for Windows, Mac as well as Linux.

The UI looks nice and easier to use. I saw a few video tutorials for the OpenShot video editor and it seems a complete package for anyone looking for a free video editor to create decent enough videos.

If you are a YouTube and just getting started, this might be a useful piece of software for you.

Shotcut

Shotcut is another nice software that is free of cost and yet offers features that are only available in paid ones.

The only downside of this video editor (as it the case with other awesome free video editors) is it’s UI, which is pretty basic.

The software comes with a bit of learning curve, but if you are looking for a software that can do more than just adding a few clips and putting music in the background to make a video, then Shotcut could be your choice.

The Tutorial page talks about how to use its different features, such as stabilizing a video clip, putting transitions, adding filters to the clips etc.

Mobile-based video editors

Now let’s talk about the computers that are always here in our pockets. I am talking about our smartphones. These days our smartphones are powerful enough to be used as a primary machine to edit our videos on.

I have used to software that are mobile based and can produce great quality videos.

Power Director is a stunning video editor app for Android phones, that is available in the Play Store. It is not as diverse as the kinemaster app but one benefit of the power director app is that it also supports 9:16 aspect ratio videos which are useful in creating Instagram story videos.

Again the free version of power director app will put a watermark of its logo on the bottom right-hand side of the video, you can buy the premium version for a one-time payment of $8.

Both the kind master and the power director app now support Green Screen (Chroma Key) feature which allows you to change the background in the videos.

Web-based Video Editors

Using a web-based video editor would mean it would only work on files that can be uploaded to the cloud. Which might not be easy for every type of project.

It is pointless to talk about such option if you are planning to create videos out of out 2GB raw footage.

But if you are looking to create videos for your Social Media channels, that viral kind of videos where there are only a few images and short clops and there is a lot of text moving on the screen.

Lumen5

We’ve actually written about Lumen5, it’s a kickass web-based video editor. You can edit or upload your own images and clips to create nice looking videos for your Social Media Campaigns.

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